A migrant worker in Essex County is in critical condition after contracting COVID-19, and he's only 24 years old.
After a migrant worker in his 30's died from COVID-19 over the weekend, Erie Shores Health Care and Windsor Regional Hospital put in a request to enter homes and hotels that house workers who tested positive for the virus.
The Windsor-Essex County Public Health Unit granted authority to do medical checks on those workers — get an idea what's going on — and see if they need to be taken to hospital for treatment.
Five people positive for COVID-19 wound up being taken to Erie Shores Health Care, but WRH President and CEO David Musyj says a sixth worker, a the 24-year-old from Mexico, was taken to Windsor.
"He's is not doing well and is now in critical care. He's COVID-19 positive and he's being cared for by the team here," he says.
Musyj tells AM800 News he was taken from a facility similar to where the 31-year-old worker had died from the virus.
"He came from one of the hotels where he was placed after he contracted COVID-19," says Musyj.
He says Erie Shores Health Care is taking the lead with the help of Essex-Windsor Emergency Medical Services with WRH's help.
Musyj says the goal moving forward is to regularly check migrant worker sites where COVID-19 is present.
"Regular check-ups with the migrant workers as well as requesting additional swabbing to occur in the population," he added.
The migrant worker in his 30's infected with COVID-19 died just days after AM800 ran the story.
— with files from AM800's Rob Hindi.